- Date
- January 8, 1987, 13:36 local (17:36 UTC)
- Place
- Shoal Cove, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N1018Hde Havilland Beaver DHC-2
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870108002059A
- Case key
- 40581
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Analysis
The DHC-2 air taxi acft had landed at Shoal Cove, AK and was step taxiing to th float plane dock. During the taxi the acfts left wing contacted a wire cable attached to an 'a' frame across the path of the acft. The cable had been put up the day before and was not marked.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1018H
- Reported as
- de Havilland Beaver DHC-2 (BEAVER DHC)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 732
- Airframe hours
- 9,448
- Engine
- P&W R985SB3, 400 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Foster Goodrich, doing business as Taquan Air Service
- Registered owner
- Foster Goodrich
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 1, 1986 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- KTN · Ketchikan, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,300 total · 8,300 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 26 knots, gusting 40
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KTN, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1018H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.